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How to pronounce “sluice”
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Pronunciation guide for sluice
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of sluice with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 2 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- My Big Idea (Ep. 1): A Joyful Way to Get Outside
and gets get stuck where somebody's closed the little sluice gate.
- Definition summary
- An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
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How to pronounce sluice
My Big Idea (Ep. 1): A Joyful Way to Get Outside
and gets get stuck where somebody's closed the little sluice gate.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “sluice”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
- A water gate or floodgate.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
- The stream flowing through a floodgate.
- (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
- (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
- [Verb]
- (transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
- (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
- (transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out).
- (intransitive) To flow, pour.
- (linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
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